CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910 — Page 520

[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government,]

OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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No. 1.

[December 12.)

SECTION 1.

Sir F. Campbell to Mr. Whitelaw Reid,

(Confidential.)

Foreign Office, December 12, 1910. Dear Mr. Whitelaw Reid,

SIR EDWARD GREY thinks it might be as well that your Excellency should see the accompanying paper,* containing the observations by Mr. J. B. Branyate, C.J.E., the British officer who represented India at the recent international commission at Shanghai, on a report prepared by Dr. Hamilton Wright on "The International Opium Commission and its Results," which forms the concluding portion of a communication "Senate," 61st Congress, addressed by him to the United States Secretary of State on the 1st January last (see pp. 62-75 of the United States Government official paper 2nd session, document No. 377).

You will see that Mr. Brunyate does not consider that Dr. Wright's report gives an altogether accurate account of the proceedings and decisions of the Shanghai Conference, and Sir Edward thinks it of some importance that your Excellency should know the view taken here with regard to that conference and its results, all the more so, as the report in question has been made the basis of certain proposals for international action.

I have, &c.

* Printed elsewhere.

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F. A. CAMPBELL.

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